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[–] LUHG_HANI 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe if they introduced this in good faith months ago people would think it's a good idea. They reason now is just power hungry admins trying to get their way. Fuck this guy so much.

[–] emptyother 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious as to how much money Reddit are spending on their attempts to change the narrative with articles like this.

[–] LUHG_HANI 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably one of the reasons why they are not profitable. PR costs.

[–] penguin_ex_machina 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the thing that gets me. I'm fine if Reddit wants to diversify revenue, or ask developers to pay a fair share. But the callous disregard for developers, users, moderators, and communities they built is beyond the pale. I don't know how someone can look at the timeline of events and how Reddit has handled this and think, "this is a company that deserves my money". Huffman's comments in the press alone, leaked or not, make him look like a giant d*uche canoe. The moment my saved posts are transferred out I'm gone.

[–] mr_jp 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you just censor the word douche?

[–] penguin_ex_machina 4 points 1 year ago

Ayyyyye don't at me.

...yes. Yes I did.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I agree because this is actually quite nice to have the ability to vote out power tripping moderators. But they're only introducing it now because they're getting desperate. What a waste. This CEO is an idiot.

Well it's not like I'm going back anyway since I got perma banned 2 days ago and nuked my account.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, the core point made originally, and that he stated again in this article, makes perfect sense to me: it costs money to run Reddit, which they pay for with ads, and the third party apps make the content available without ads or with ads that go to the app developers. It's completely reasonable that Reddit would want to get paid for people using their content.

But the way they rolled it out, the slandering of one of the developers, the ridiculously short time for it, the removal of NSFW content, and especially the draconian prices are just unacceptable.